i am of a generation where i was surrounded completely in law schools and law firms you were not seen as an adequate partner. you were not the armed candy that a good hovered male graduate was supposed to end up with a. there was a whole generation of us with that went into the profession with the opening of those doors and you were completely dateless, the ultimate wallflower. that is something which is still existing today and it is striking to me this divide between the perception of michele obama among white women and black women. white women find it appalling she has given up her career to be the first lady. many of my black friends particularly of my generation think it is the most wonderful thing in the world, that he saves her down as it used to be called in the olden days, all women didn't have to be a spinster but in the context of a black man who loves you, this romantic overlay of it, that black women and so rarely seen as beautiful, as lovable, the idea that this symbolic dimension of what michele obama is, clearly adored so much more than all the other first ladies in th